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"These medics are going to prison for treating the injured and for telling the world about the regime's crackdown. This isn't the kind of progress that the kingdom keeps promising the world is under way," said Brian Dooley, of the U.S.-based organization Human Rights First.

Protests in Bahrain started in February 2011 spurred by uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. But demonstrations in Bahrain failed to gain the traction of other Arab Spring uprisings after a crackdown by authorities in the island state. The crackdown was backed by troops from nearby Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.